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Space Taxi -- open items
Things worth doing, not commitments. Started 2026-10-05, when Space Taxi moved out of JoeyLib's tree into this repository; JoeyLib's own list (library and platform work) stays in JoeyLib.
- The C64's flown-sprite warp. The level-name intro animates its
warp by cycling the colours of a static star field painted into
screen RAM, on every target (stTitle.c,
starPaletteApplyin stRender.c). The C64 flies seven star sprites out along its rays instead. That version, carry-flag exact ($44F8/$4500/$450C/$4513/ $467A, the star velocity tables back in genC64Data.py), is kept inpatches/spriteWarp.patchfor reference: it was made against the working tree of 2026-10-05 before the warp's layout and pacing were redone, so it no longer applies as it stands. Measured then, the sprite warp ran 16.6-17.0 fps on the IIgs against the palette's 29.2 (the bar was 30); ST 29.2 against the palette's 23.3, Amiga PAL 12.3 against 18.8/13.6, DOS ~29.9 both ways. On the IIgs the cost is per-call overhead in save-and-draw and restore (~1.75k and ~1.25k cycles a star), not bytes moved, so it becomes feasible with a leaner save/draw/restore path for small cels in JoeyLib.